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Registered charity · Taunton

Somerset Wildlife Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £5.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Somerset
Website
www.somersetwildlife.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Somerset Wildlife Trust
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.3m£5.8m
  • 2024£4.9m£4.7m
  • 2023£5.4m£4.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.1m£3.4m
  • 2021£3.8m£2.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 26%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION, MAINTENANCE, PROTECTION AND ENJOYMENT OF: (I) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS; (II) PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST; (III) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL OR PHYSIOGRAPHICAL VALUE; (IV) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROMOTING BIODIVERSITY.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN: (I) THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; (II) THE PRINCIPLES OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION. (3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY, IN ECOLOGY AND GEOLOGY.

Grants received

59 grants · £8,108,221 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £3,349,774 (12 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £3,205,775 (32 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £555,615 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £357,446 (4 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £295,281 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £76,6852024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £178,6102024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £222,5532024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £76,6742024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £19,3942024-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 15Professional services 7Agriculture 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.3m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.6 in 2021

93 from 59 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
29%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
238372
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/09/1964AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/06/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/10/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/10/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/10/2013
Companies House
Company number 00818162 · Active
Contact on the register
01823652400 · enquiries@somersetwildlife.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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